I’m pretty sure Ithkuil has a word for this….
Siva
> On 21 Jul 2016, at 7:08 AM, Jeffrey Brown <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> "zeitsprache" ??
>
> (The same metaphorical shift has occurred in psychology. Maybe this is a
> common occurrence in any field which is poorly understood, leading its
> practitioners to grasp for metaphors?)
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Ralph L. DeCarli <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> I would think that '/jargon/' is the term for the sets of words
>> themselves, but '/zeitgeist', 'evolution' or '///etymology//', and
>> perhaps/'common lexis'/ would probably also be needed to get the full idea
>> across. I don't know of any single word that combines those concepts.
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>> On 07/20/2016 12:52 AM, Granny Grammar wrote:
>>
>>> In the 17th century, when moats were just going out of style, but canals
>>> were becoming a serious part of economic development across northern
>>> Europe, the major work of economics expressed everything in terms of flows
>>> of water.
>>>
>>> 150 years later Adam smith came along, and economics started with the pin
>>> factory on page one, then roamed across the industrial revolution from
>>> there.
>>>
>>> As soon as Michaelson, and Faraday, and Boltzmann had a handle on
>>> electricity, economics had fields of force. Then with the huge kludge
>>> computer of the 1950's, along came input-output analysis, but that would
>>> have been too much work for anybody to work out in detail, so off they
>>> went
>>> into calculus, with just the barest nod to non-linear functions.
>>>
>>> (These, like input-output analysis, would require an awful lot of real
>>> world factual work, so that direction in economics has had comparatively
>>> few followers. Calculus and all the nice smooth functions that deal with
>>> things that can be shoved under the Central Limit Theorem get much more
>>> play. They have no contact with the real world, but they're close enough
>>> to look plausible, and you can manipulate them without ever leaving your
>>> office or inserting an actual fact.)
>>>
>>> Now, here's the question: what is the word, or the vocabulary, for a whole
>>> field going from waterworks, to the water wheel and steam, to electricity,
>>> and now digital and soon quantum computing, for its succession of sets of
>>> metaphors?
>>>
>>> As you might all guess, I'm looking for a vicious set of invective with
>>> which to say that the physicists are just as bad as the economists.
>>>
>>> Help, puh-leeze.
>>>
>>> Yer Granny Luvs Ya.
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Living well is the best revenge.
>>